tumbriltide
/ˈtʌmbrɪlˌtaɪd/nounVerified NewThe accelerating cadence of public downfalls that begins once a crowd senses that ruin has been permitted.
In the French Revolution, once the first tumbrils rolled, each execution lowered the threshold for the next; the modern version is pile-ons and career destructions that feed on their own momentum. The word names the tide, not any single wave.
Etym. — *tumbril* (the cart that carried the condemned to the guillotine) + *tide* — a slow-building, irreversible swell.
Rel. — terrorinertia
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